Posted on 07/27/2013 5:55:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The charges include human trafficking, false imprisonment and molesting a child
Police connected a third suspect to two men accused of forcing a 15-year-old runaway from Los Angeles to work in a Northern California pot farm and using her as a sex slave, officials said on Saturday.
Eric Edgar, 45, was arrested in LA in May on a sex assault charge after the girl identified him as one of her assailants, said Cmdr. Andy Smith of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Edgar is connected to a case involving two suspected pot growers who allegedly sexually abused a girl who was trimming marijuana buds for them, police said. They allegedly locked her in a metal toolbox near the Northern California city of Clearlake, in Lake County, more than 100 miles north of San Francisco, authorities said.
Edgar was briefly held in an LA County Jail before being released to Lake County authorities. His status was not known on Saturday.
Lake County Sheriff's officials were not available for comment.
Ryan Balletto, 30, and Patrick Pearmain, 25, were arrested two months ago. They face charges of cultivating pot for sale and sexual assault, among others, according to a press release issued by the Lake County Sheriff’s Department.
The case broke after deputies visited Balletto's home asking about the missing girl on April 29, according to court documents unsealed on Monday.
The next day, the girl called authorities to say she was OK and in Sacramento.
Patrick Pearmain, 24, and Ryan Balletto, 30, both allegedly had sex with a girl who was cutting marijuana buds for them at Balletto's Lake County property.LAPD investigators traced the call and police located her at a West Sacramento hotel, where authorities arrested Pearmain, court documents said.
At the pot farm, authorities seized over 1,300 marijuana plants and what police said was the largest weapons cache in recent Lake County Sheriff’s history.
Authorities also uncovered sex toys and the 4-foot by 2-foot metal box authorities said the girl was imprisoned in.
There seems to be a lot of this going around these days.
“Pot Farm Sex Slave” — am I hearing the title for a future XXX rated movie?
Some reporter, or his editor, has a liking for twisted phrasing.
Sounds like a title of a Spinal Tap Song
Sex Farm Woman
Working on a sex farm
Trying to raise some hard love
Getting out my pitch fork
Poking your hay
Scratching in your hen house
Sniffing at your feedbag
Slipping out your back door
Leaving my spray
Sex farm woman, I’m gonna mow you down
Sex farm woman, I’ll rake and hoe you down
Sex farm woman, don’t you see my silo rising high?
Working on a sex farm
Hosing down your barn door
Bothering your livestock
They know what I need
Working up a hot sweat
Crouching in your pea patch
Plowing through your bean field
Planting my seed
Sex farm woman, I’ll be your hired hand
Sex farm woman, I’ll let my offer stand
Sex farm woman, don’t you hear my tractor rumbling by?
Working on a sex farm
Trying to raise some hard love
Getting out my pitch fork
Poking your hay
There wouldn’t be a problem if they just legalized it.
The War On Sex Slaves must end!
Have them limbo naked under razor wire. That’s a good start.
Happened here in lovely Clearlake....
Ever wonder what becomes of the milk carton kids?
The War On Sex Slaves must end!
Wow! So you think imprisoning and raping a 15 year old is equivalent to an adult smoking a bowl while watching old Star Wars reruns or some such?
You are a seriously twisted sister...
In this case they are the same guys.
potheads commit other crimes too
Sounds like some thing from the old Argosy Magazine.
“Downed allied fliers held sex slaves of
ELSA, SHEWOLF of the SS.
I loved going to the barber shop in those days.
It’s called sarcasm.
Yeah I remember Argosy. And True. The Japanese were really diabolical with the story I recall involving American nurses and torture.
Hair-raising stuff that made it easier for the barber to give me my crewcut.
Thanks for the lyrics—they were great. Yeah, it sounds like the soundtrack for my hypothetical movie.
Three days ago this story broke in European news papers... hey US media... does obama have to approve everything that you offer to the public as news? It certainly slows down your reporting.
Do you?
Hardly. Like saying Al Capone was the same as some mill worker who liked to have a beer after work.
Crazy story just crazy. But the “bondage” theme is going to show up more and more often and visibly in American events, if the spiritual road down which the US is going doesn’t get a U turn pretty soon.
I’m encountering a great deal of difficulty determining your intended point.
Do you have one?
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